Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-09 | Page 2 | Ezra Meeker is a Loyal American |

Type	issue
Date	1918-12-09
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
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Article Title	Ezra Meeker is a Loyal American
Type	article
Date	1918-12-09
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
Page	2
OCR Text	EZRA MEEKER IS A ! LOYAL AMERICAN!. SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. S Could Ezra Ez-ra Meeker, the pioneer who has driven driv-en his ox-team back to the national capitol over the old Oregon trail, have slipped some of his 87 years from his stooped shoulders, he would have been a private at least in the great American Amer-ican army. This being impossible, however, he harked back to the days when men lived by the toil of their hands, and raised a war garden on .an acre and a third of ground east of Lake Washington. Just the other day the veteran walked into the Red Cross rooms and laid down $257,80, representing the cum ne jjua reanzea irom nis toil. "It was a duty, and therefore a pleasure," he said simply. "And I do not think anyone should take credit for doing' what he considers a dutv." "Private" Meeker disdained the modern tractor, and oven the horse for cultivating his ground. He waged war on the weeds with a hoe. Eight tons of fertilizer donated by a packing firm enriched the ground. A citizen paid for the cost of bringing water to the land for irrigation. Two Red Cross women marked the produce. At one end of the garden, appeared this sign: "This garden is dedicated to the Defenders De-fenders of Liberty." It was "Private" Meeker's answer to the Hun. oo
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